disuse
noun/dɪsˈjuːs/
/dɪsˈjuːs/
[uncountable]- a situation in which something is no longer being used
- The factory fell into disuse twenty years ago.
Extra Examples- Her muscles had become weak through disuse.
- The workforce has shrunk to less than a thousand and much of the plant is in disuse.
- Much of the factory is in disuse.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + disuse- be in
- fall into
- from disuse
- through disuse
- with disuse
- …
- a period of disuse
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘being unaccustomed’): from dis- (expressing negation) + the noun use.
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